Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to remain in office on Monday after his ruling coalition suffered a bruising ...

A right-wing populist party, Sanseito, led by a former supermarket manager, has surprisingly won big in Japan's recent ...

Campaigning under the nationalist slogan “Japanese First,” the party capitalised on growing public frustration with ...

Birthed on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites ...

It won its first seat in the upper house in 2022, following a campaign in which it fashioned itself as an "anti-globalist" ...

TOKYO: With the Liberal Democratic Party likely having performed poorly in Sunday's (July 20) House of Councillors election, ...

Exit polls from a key election in Japan project the ruling coalition is set to lose its majority, putting the country's Prime ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future is unclear after his coalition appeared to have disastrously lost its upper ...

The aim of the lengthy campaign—already effectively underway—is to resuscitate the party as a trap for the working class ...

The small right-wing populist party led by firebrand Sohei Kamiya won 14 seats in Sunday’s Upper House election.

Japanese PM Ishiba's coalition lost its upper house majority, compounding earlier lower house losses. The right-wing Sanseito ...